Chuck Ford

Chuck Ford is a Denver-area lobbyist who has been Executive Director of the Colorado Licensed Beverage Association (CLBA), a group that represents bar owners and alcohol industry interests, but also serves tobacco industry interests within the state of Colorado. As Director of CLBA, Chuck Ford has publically opposed clean indoor air laws in Colorado by promoting the long-held tobacco industry claim that clean indoor air laws devastate hospitality businesses.

Typical of Ford's opposition was this passage in an article from March 17, 2006 article in the Colorado Springs Gazette:

"'Chuck Ford of the Colorado Licensed Beverage Association lobbied relentlessly against the [clean air] legislation on behalf of small bars and taverns. 'The bottom line is that our bars and taverns will not survive; huge numbers will go out of business,' he said." 

Claims of long term financial damage to businesses have been proven wrong by numerous studies of objective measures, like sales tax receipts, from bars and gambling businesses in cities and states that have enacted clean indoor air laws.

With his son, Zack Ford, Chuck Ford in 2003 was part of the Denver-area lobbying firm of Ford Sovine & Ford. In 2003, Chuck Ford operated the lobbying firm Chuck Ford and Sons. Chuck Ford has also lobbied for the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, according to a 2004 newsletter by GASP of Colorado.

Contact
(Taken from 2003 Colorado Secretary of State records) Chuck Ford & Sons Phone (303) 860-0120 1301 Pennsylvania Street, #900 Denver, Colorado 80203 Ford, Zack A. (303) 860-0120 (son) Ford, Seth A. (303) 810-0057 (son)

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